Looking through my general purpose hotkey file I see I have done some stuff that may be helpful here. I used excerpts to make this script. Just testing briefly it seems to work on Windows 8.0. It opened urls with chromium and opera through BrowserBunch.
( Note: next paragraph edited to reflect the new hotkeys actually in the script. The Windows key has been removed as a modifier since it can trigger the Start Screen in Windows 8 and later. )
You can either select a url and hit Control Shift F4 to launch BrowserBunch with the selection as arg, or if in an editor place the caret at the start of the url and press Control Shift F3. In the latter case the url must be at the end of the line as I just send Shift End to select it. Note that Control Shift F4 is also useful to open the url in the AddressBar in another browser. Most browsers can be set to select the address if you click the mouse into the AddressBar. Once selected press Control Shift F4 and the BrowserBunch Gui should pop up.
Just scraping from any caret position is messy since pressing Control Left or Right stops at periods as well as white space so no easy way to detect where the url ends. It's pretty easy to click to the start and hit the hotkey.
Add window classes to the EditorGroup section to support more editors and browsers. Edit the path to BrowserBunch.exe to match the path on your system. Run the script with ahk or use ahk to compile to exe. At this point I haven't added a custom icon as I will probably just paste the code into my catch all hotkey script. But you can add an icon for the tray if you wish.
Note that on Windows Vista and later it may be a good idea to put BrowserBunch.exe in an empty folder not under Program Files since it writes an .ini file to the same folder. Vista and later don't like this and you may have to take ownership etc.. I find it easier for these types of scripts to put them under a folder I created C:\Utils in a separate folder for each script. This also helps avoid spaces in file paths etc..
I've named the file LaunchBB.ahk
#SingleInstance force
#NoEnv
#Warn UseUnsetLocal, Off
DetectHiddenWindows, On
SetTitleMatchMode,2
SendMode Input
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
; Editors and Browsers to Launch BrowserBunch from
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class TFormEditPadLite ;EditPadLite
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class TFormEditPadLite7 ;EditPadLite7
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class wxWindowClassNR ;FBIde
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class SciTEWindow ;Scite
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class MAINFBEDIT ;FBEdit
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class Notepad ;Notepad
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class TFormMain ;TreePad
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_0 ;Chromium Browser
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class Chrome_WidgetWin_1 ;Chromium 20.x
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass ;Firefox Browser
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class MozillaWindowClass ;Firefox 4+ Browser
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, ahk_class OperaWindowClass ;Opera 11
GroupAdd,EditorGroup, BBCeditor ; BBCeditor
#IfWinActive ahk_Group EditorGroup
; Launch BrowserBunch with Selection as arg
^+F4::
ClipSave := Clipboard
Clipboard := ""
Send, ^c
ClipWait,2
; set BrowserBunch path for your system
Run C:\Utils\BrowserBunch\BrowserBunch.exe %Clipboard%
Clipboard := ClipSave
;MsgBox % Clipboard
return
; Launch BrowserBunch with url
; Note caret must be immediately left
; of the entire url and url must be at the
; end of a line
^+F3::
ClipSave := Clipboard
Clipboard =
Send,+{End}
Sleep,10
Send,^c
ClipWait,2
Send,{Right}
; set BrowserBunch path for your system
Run C:\Utils\BrowserBunch\BrowserBunch.exe %Clipboard%
Clipboard := ClipSave
return
Let me know if you find a bug.
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